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A strongly individualistic temperament cannot be at ease in the collective membership of an organization where dogmas are set up like fences and where patriotism rejects salvation for those outside. Such a temperament needs the free air of unfettered thinking and uncircumscribed goodwill. It can sympathize intellectually with many different points of view without losing itself in any one of them, but it can do so only because it belongs to none.

-- Notebooks Category 1: Overview of the Quest > Chapter 3 : Independent Path > # 170